[John Pancoast]

Are you also using H.sie's patch ? Stiebler's patch is meant to be used with it, not by itself.
The mods you list have several files that conflict with each other. Applying them via JSGME will tell you which ones.
Then it is up to you whether to modify any files involved so they don't conflict, or which mod's conflicting files you want to overwrite the others.
To answer your fuel question, not that I know of. Some of your other questions are handled by H.sie's u-tanker patch which also makes me think you don't have it applied ?